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Wave of Blood

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Wave of BloodAriana Reines

£ 11.99

Wave of Blood

Ariana Reines

Is it the computerization of the planet
Or a loosening of my fidelity to suffering
I don’t understand the intensity
I’ve hidden here but I know I despaired
Of finding a physical place to keep
My tears. Now what. Seas that go turquoise
When you stop looking at them . . .


Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, Wave of Blood is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.

  • 978-1-7395161-4-7
  • 21.6 x 13.9 cm
  • 200 pp.
  • Paperback
  • 21 October 2024

About the author

Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts and based in New York. Her books include A Sand Book—winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tuftfts Award and longlisted for the National Book Award—Mercury, Coeur de Lion, and The Cow, which won the Alberta Prize from Fence in 2006. Her Obie-winning play Telephone was commissioned by the Foundry Theatre with a sold-out run at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2009. Reines has created performances for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Swiss Institute, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Performance Space New York. She has taught poetry at UC Berkeley (Holloway Poet), Columbia, NYU, and Scripps College (Mary Routt Chair), been a visiting critic at Yale School of Art, and for community organizations including the Poetry Project and Poets House. Her poetry and prose have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, Artforum, Frieze, Harper’s, and many others. In 2020, while a Divinity student at Harvard, Reines created Invisible College, an online space devoted to the study of poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.

Photo: Collier Schorr

Endorsements (5)

Brave. Brilliant. Bold. A wave and a wail of a book.

Raymond Antrobus

Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. Some of us have made a fetish of our stupidity, pretending to forget history, and some of us have made a fetish of despair, congratulating ourselves on melancholia, but Ariana is too brilliant and too alive for either of those sad luxuries . . . I am convinced of the authenticity of the summonses she receives and the summonses she issues and when I read her I am reminded that all of this is a calling before it’s an identity or career. Her voice—which is always more than hers alone—is a dialectic between the very ancient and the bleeding edge.

Ben Lerner

Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention. She moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self.

The New York Times

These are the kinds of poems that reorient you in the world, make you understand how little you know, but how much is inside you.

NYLON

Mind-blowing.

Kim Gordon

Press (25)

Kristian Vistrup MadsenMood Curriculum Podcast, Episode 2: Ariana Reines07/08/2025
Wave of BloodRobert Eric ShoemakerRain Taxi, Summer 202506/2025
In the Grief House of Ariana ReinesBruce HainleySpike Art Magazine23/05/2025
Review: Wave of Blood by Ariana ReinesKen BaumannZona Motel22/05/2025
Wave of BloodPaul ScottGoodreads.com15/05/2025
Ariana Reines's Wave of BloodBlake ButlerDividual30/04/2025
Who by FireAudrey WollenBookforum, Spring 202504/2025
Heroines of Nothing at AllHannah BonnerPoetry Foundation14/04/2025
Writing and Mutating with Ariana ReinesArcadia MolinasWorms24/02/2025
Dust BunniesChristina Catherine MartinezClównicas20/02/2025
Dance Dance RevolutionAriana ReinesBookforum, Winter 20252602/2025
Wave of Blood excerptsAriana ReinesPioneer Works Broadcast06/02/2025
Our Current BestsellersSelected by the BookshopLondon Review Bookshop10/02/2025
25 Books to Check Out for 2025Brittany MenjivarHard Copy01/2025
Ariana Reines' Wave of BloodSam ChaAntiphony, 501/2025
A Conversation with Ariana ReinesSam ChaAntiphony, 501/2025
Ariana Reines’s “Wave of Blood”Kate WolfLARB Radio Hour27/12/2024
A Year in Reading: Emily WittEmily WittThe Millions12/12/2024
Ariana ReinesCasual EncounterszOn The Rag12/12/2024
Poet Ariana Reines Isn’t Afraid of Saying the Wrong ThingJuliette JeffersInterview Magazine21/10/2024
Three Poems from Wave of BloodAriana ReinesCluny Journal15/10/2024

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Flood Tide

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Flood TideAna Schnabltrans. Rawley Grau

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Flood Tide

Ana Schnabl

trans. Rawley Grau

A dazzling mix of narrative styles (even genres), a linguistic rollercoaster, and a book that demands both close attention and literary sensibility . . . The reader is hooked.

Boštjan Videmšek

Mysterious, precise and haunting, Flood Tide suggests that every homecoming is a return to a crime scene.

Chris Kraus

In moderate physical decline, and with an immoderate weed habit, the novelist Dunja Anko returns home to the Adriatic coast to play detective and solve the mystery of her brother’s death. The going is arduous, the people inscrutable; her old friends have had years to forget – or to convince themselves they don’t remember. Dunja must contend with desire and disgust, curiosity and fear, as she begins to doubt her reasons for returning. Elegantly plotted, funny and self-reflexive, Flood Tide is a psychologically deft exploration of the trauma wrought by human limitation and indecision.

  • 978-1-7395161-5-4
  • 21.6 x 13.9  cm
  • 232 pp.
  • Paperback
  • October 2025

About the author

Ana Schnabl (b. 1985) is a Slovenian writer and editor. She writes for several Slovenian media outlets and is a monthly columnist for the Guardian. Her collection of short stories Razvezani (Beletrina, 2017) met with critical acclaim and won the Best Debut Award at the Slovenian Book Fair, followed by the Edo Budiša Award in Croatia; the collection has been translated into German and Serbian. Three years later Schnabl published her first novel Masterpiece (Mojstrovina, Beletrina, 2020). She toured Europe with the English, German and Serbian translations of the book, which included a residence in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, and the first European Writer’s Festival in London. The novel was given favourable reviews and mentions in numerous Austrian, German and English media, and was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Her second novel Flood Tide (Plima, Beletrina, 2022) was nominated for the Slovenian Kresnik Award. Her third novel September (Beletrina, 2024) won the Kresnik Award in 2025.

Photo: Luka Dakskobler

About the translator

Rawley Grau has been translating literary works from Slovenian for over twenty years, including by such first-rate novelists as Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Sebastijan Pregelj, Gabriela Babnik and Vlado Žabot. Six of his translations have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, while his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He has also translated poetry by Miljana Cunta, Miklavž Komelj, Janez Ramoveš and Tomaž Šalamun, among others. In 2021, he received the prestigious Lavrin Diploma from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Translations from other languages include A Science Not for the Earth: Selected Poems and Letters by the Russian poet Yevgeny Baratynsky, which received the AATSEEL prize for best scholarly translation, and, co-translated with Christina E. Kramer, The Long Coming of the Fire: Selected Poems by the modernist poet Aco Šopov, which won the 2025 International Dragi Award for best translation from Macedonian. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.

Endorsements (7)

If you can imagine a story that’s an unsettling mix of psychological meltdown and detective story, featuring a stoned novelist wracked with back pain, going back to her hometown in Slovenia to masquerade as a Philip Marlowe wannabe to finally find out why her older brother died, and uncovering secrets about her friends and herself she probably would rather not have known, congratulations: you’ve just imagined Ana Schnabl’s brilliant Flood Tide. Readers, come for the moments of revelation, stay for the sight of a writer unravelling her characters until they’re left raw, and you’re left hooked.

Rishi Dastidar

Ana Schnabl’s new novel openly defies conventional literary genres: Are we reading a family drama, a troubled homecoming story or a marijuana-infused psychological novel? In a sleepy seaside town in contemporary Slovenia, nothing is what it seems, and no one is what they purport to be … An exciting, brilliantly written book, in which the reader shall not resist stepping into the detective’s shoes.

Nicoletta Asciuto

A singularly haunting and stylistically inventive novel on the primal scenes of family origins and sibling trauma. Revitalising tropes from the detective novel, elegy, and sharp social comedy in present-day coastal Slovenia, it sings and fizzes from the page.

Alice Blackhurst

Schnabl’s prose is matter of fact and yet somehow thrilling. She writes with absolute clarity. Stunning.

Molly Aitken

A fizzing fox in the hen-house of cosy British crime novels. Move over Richard Osman.

Tiffany Anne Tondut

A hometown return story with a turn of darkness: surreality both connecting and at once disconnecting the banal with the strangeness of grief.

Rose Cleary

We enter the story as if eavesdropping on real people – something the heroine herself confirms when she says the tale would not unfold as a psychological, sociological or crime novel, but as life itself.

Nada Breznik, RTV SLO